High noon : twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them /
J.F. Rischard, vice-president for Europe of the World Bank, offers his suggestions for solving twenty of the most urgent global problems of the 21st-century.
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- It's Not Globalization, Stupid
- Two Big Forces
- Stretching the Planet to the Limit: The Demographic Explosion
- Doing Everything Differently: The New World Economy and the Two Revolutions Behind It
- Why the New World Economy Is So Radically Different
- The Opportunities and Stresses of the New World Economy
- A Crisis of Complexity?
- Three New Realities
- High Noon
- for Twenty Urgent Global Issues
- A Dangerous Gap
- A Bad Feeling in Your Stomach: Unsolved Global Issues
- Twenty Global Issues, Twenty Years to Solve Them
- Inherently Global Issues
- Sharing Our Planet: Issues Involving the Global Commons
- Sharing Our Humanity: Issues Requiring a Global Commitment
- Sharing Our Rule Book: Issues Needing a Global Regulatory Approach
- Thinking Aloud
- New Approaches to Global Problem-Solving
- No Pilot in the Cockpit
- Current Ways of Handling Global Issues Aren't Up to the Job
- No Chance for a World Government
- Pointers Towards Solutions: Networked Governance
- Global Issues Networks
- Good Things About Global Issues Networks
- Controversial Aspects
- Stepping Back: Other Solutions Besides Global Issues Networks
- Conclusion: Imagination and a Different Type of Thinking.